Topper's TravelsTopper Kain's blog. Topper Kain is a world-famous kazoo player and traditional norwegian food chef. He wants you to use the comments. Monday, July 25, 2005Ever had that sinking feeling? That what I had as I left Melbourne a couple days ago, and it wasn't just because my side-trip to Malaysia had resulted in some digestive problems. I had just spent 6 months with some of the most amazing people ever, and I knew I was never going to see most of them again. And never is a big word. It's just with two weeks of vacation time a year and incentive to not even us that I don't think that I'll have much time to visit Australia after I graduate and enter the working world, and, well, frankly most of my Australian friends weren't too keen on visiting the US, despite the promise of having a sexy accent.I couldn't sleep at all on the flight, a result of a combination of too much sleep the night before and far too much on my mind to want to. However, this did mean I got to watch a few good movies on the back of the person in front of mine's seat. After I landed in good old Los Angeles I was greeted by the symbol most represented of that fine city: 40+ year old women wearing clothing meant for slutty 14 year olds. I mean I'm cool with the young at heart thing, but a t-shirt that says "Princess University" or "Slut" in glitter after the age of, well, actually no one should ever wear those shirts, but most DEFINATLY not at 42. I also got to see American Lauren in LA. She was visiting her cousin in LA and kept me company within the dull beige walls of LAX. You know, considering that LAX is the primary port of entry into the USA on the west coast, you'd think that we'd make it not look like crap... oh well. I got back to Seattle around 8 PM, waited for about 45 minutues for my luggage and then got back to Bremerton around 10 PM. A wonderful homecoming with hugs and kisses and stuff quickly turned into me falling asleep standing up as I had not had a full nights rest since I'd left Australia. Washington in the Summer is absolutely amazing. Sunsets light up the whole sky, the mountains highlight the land, everything is green and sunny. It looks like an evergreen forest version of eden. The only thing that could make this more perfect is if my brother HADN'T hit a sandbar and ripped off the rear end of the family motor boat the day before I got back. Regardless it feels good to be back. At the sametime however, I'm definatly missing Australia. I'm already planning a trip to the Aussie pie store in Seattle to get some of that meaty, gravy goodness, I'm finding everyone talking with American accents kind of weird, and I even tried to give the lady at mackers 25 cents for ketchup. Everyone in the land of Oz should know that I left part of my heart there and I think I'll always hope to come back. Until then keep in touch: my e-mail is topkai22@hotmail.com . And if you are ever in the United States look me up and you'll have a place to stay, food to eat, and a tour guide eager to show you that his country is cool too, even if we don't have kangaroos. Take care everyone. .: posted by Topper 10:13 AM
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